consummative
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From consummate + -ive.
Adjective
[edit]consummative (comparative more consummative, superlative most consummative)
- Serving to consummate or complete.
- 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
- the final, the consummative procedure of philosophy
- (grammar) a verb aspect that indicates the completion of an action.; perfect.
Derived terms
[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “consummative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)